The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-08-17

andria is seller of cotton seeds.
A frsct-class Oil Mill would ulti
mately control the whole Red rive
business, and as an adjunct to a cottor
factory and ginnery, it would create {
vast and remunerative industry.
3. For health, residence and bust
ness purposes.
Alexandra has always been notec
for its salubrity, as it is surrounded
entirety by high alluvial lands ani
hills. 1t has always escaped the cpl
denies SO fatal to the other Southern
Towns.
The Town is easily drained, beauti
fully laid out in squares at right an
giles, and commands splendid sites fo1
residences. Vegetation may be called
perennial, which makes the beautfying
of home an easy matter. Vegetables
and fruits attain here their highes
maturity; and every thing necessary
for mans sustenance can either be
raised with very little labor, or pur
chased for very low price.
For business purposes, the location
of Alexandria is so central that bust
ness sense and capital combined can
not fail to succeed. A single business
house 1.-THE late A. Heyman) has beer
known to sell quarter of a million
yearly. The business houses here arc
all solvent, and the losses on the
gross sales do not average three pei
cent. A live business man, who il
willing to live and let live can make g
fortune here.
What is at Alexandra now?
/. The Court House, as Alexandra
is the Parish seat.
2. All the officers of the Court and
the lawyers reside here.
3. The Jail.
4. The depots of the Morgan and
the Pacific Railroads.
S. The Post and Money Order Office
6. Fourteen general stores.
Seven grocery stores.
One hardware aid agricultural i'm
plements store.
Two tin shops.
One saddlery store.
One millinery store.
-Four drug stores.
One jewelry store.
Two bakeries.
One ice house.
7. Two weekly newspapers.
s. One hotel, (the Exchange) one O
the largest, best kept and most conve
nient in the State.
Six private boarding houses.
8. Two livery stables.
10. One machine repairing shop.
II One blacksmith and wagon shop
IL. One ginnery and two planning
mills.
10. Two undertaking establishments
IA. One restaurant.
Is. A steam fire engine, Silsb,
make.
16. One hook and ladder company
II. The City Hall with a fine mar
ket attached.
Is. One billiard saloon.
10. One photograph gallery, will
news stand attached.
20. Two barber shops.
81. One rubber stamp mandatory
%. Three resident dentists.
20. Seven physicians.
"a. Thirteen lawyers.
IS. Three shoemakers.
&c. Two tailoring establishments.
81. Two book and job printing es
Establishments.
Contracted for and to be built at once
l.. A cotton compress, to cost owe
$4,000. The town has donate
$4,000 towards it's construction, an
has given for 81 SO years. lease {
the ground on which the compress
company are now building, also e,
emption from taxes, etc. The con
press is to be in operation by Octobt
LIST next, and expects to handle, il
GLIDING railroad cottons, some 5000
bales of cotton.
2. A single: hoop pole and SRI
mill, which will operate this fall an
employ great many hands.
( 3. The depots and machine shol
of the Arkansas and Louisiana Raj
road. The town has donated thir,
acres to the company for that purpos
and they are to begin work at ono
Immediately out of Town, up the ri,
or, we have
l. The large ginnery of the Expe,
ment plantation.
9. This immense saw mill of the Ne
York Lumber Company, said to
tho largest in the United States. It
t now idle owing to some unavoidab
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